Pyr‧rhic vic‧to‧ry /ˌpɪrɪk ˈvɪkt
əri/
noun [countable][
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: Pyrrhus (312?-272BC), Greek king whose army defeated the Romans but had very many killed and wounded]
a victory in which the person who wins suffers so much that the victory was hardly worth winning
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